Notes About Networks

This is one of 50 posts about cyborgs, a project to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the coining of the term. Where Do Cyborgs Come From? The term cyborg is as evocative and cuts as elusive a figure now...

Posted by mistersquid on September 29, 2010 9:09 AM

Reorganizing This Movable Type Blog: Mistersquid Refreshed

Before returning to California after a 17-year adventure in the world of higher education (one that may not quite be done done), I restructured the way I was developing material for this blog. That restructuring was born of a...

Posted by mistersquid on September 13, 2009 12:48 PM

Taking It Lying Down: A Short Addendum to The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception written for the Age of Ubiquitous Television

On Friday, 10 July, Pam and I were in Manhattan, KS, which with bathroom breaks and fuelings is about ninety minutes outside Topeka. Two largish little league baseball teams were also staying where we were lodging, and the breakfast...

Posted by mistersquid on July 18, 2009 8:33 AM

Empirical Evidence

An astute observer of human motivation and desires, Sigmund Freud noted He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his...

Posted by mistersquid on October 18, 2008 8:25 AM

Damned spot

Three graduate students in philosophy have begun an anonymous blog where they have found the courage to decry the heartache that is their job market. There are a thousand things I'd like to cover regarding the protocol of the philosophy...

Posted by mistersquid on January 1, 2008 12:17 PM

Name Goes Here

November, last month, is the month where I write the least. Nothing intentional. It's just that my brooding character lends itself to contemplation in my month of nativity. All the big questions: who am I? Why are we here? Where...

Posted by mistersquid on December 2, 2007 9:49 AM

U.S. Interest in the Middle East: World War III

I'm doing everything I can not to become a frothing pacifist, but it's hard in the face of the unilateral sanctions against Iran which will be announced today by the present administration. I don't have time or energy to distill...

Posted by mistersquid on October 25, 2007 11:39 AM

Editorial Board of Ohio University's The Post Thinks Racism Is Funny

Photo of Chris Yonker(Image source) On 7 September 2007, The Post, a student newspaper funded by Ohio University, published an editorial by Chris Yonker titled "Broad Stripes and Bright Stars" which features, among other things, a photograph of Yonker striking...

Posted by mistersquid on September 18, 2007 8:44 AM

oink

QT_WriteOBJECT_XHTML('http://web.me.com/mistersquid/images/04/rudeThougtlessLittlePig.mp3', '1', '1', '', 'autoplay', 'true', 'controller', 'false', 'target', 'myself', 'href', '#', 'align', 'middle'); -->Alec Baldwin is the latest “victim” of self-inflicted speech act trauma. Unlike other white male celebrities such as Mel Gibson, Don Imus, and Michael Richards...

Posted by mistersquid on April 22, 2007 9:43 AM

Loft

One path seems very familiar, an extension of emotional states familiar as breathing. There, desire is ever only idealized, enervated by the luxury of never having to become. This path leads to radical discontinuity, to existential fracture. Disruption and unpredictability...

Posted by mistersquid on December 12, 2006 8:05 AM

Double Stitch

For the past two weeks, I’ve wanted to follow up on my post regarding the ending of Spamland #1 (the only one I’ve as yet seen.) My argument was to have identified the retroactive constitution of subjectivity through the chain...

Posted by mistersquid on November 13, 2006 12:05 AM

October Surprise: Clobber the Blogger

At a campaign stop in Charlottesville, Virginia, staffers for Senator George Allen (R-VA) beat up Mike Stark, United States Marine, University of Virginia Law student, and blogger for Daily Kos.The issue which gets neglected due to the unseemly and easy-to-sensationalize...

Posted by mistersquid on October 31, 2006 9:27 PM